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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Monday dismissed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s major speech on foreign policy as mostly platitudes and little substance. Speaking at the Virginia Military Institute in...

A megachurch pastor in San Diego became one of up to 2,000 clergy around the country to defy IRS rules and announce their support of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Sunday. “Some came to here to hear an endorsement,”...

Texans can breathe easier: the radioactive waste Halliburton fracking surveyors lost last month has finally been found. The United Arab Emirates-based oil services company told reporters this weekend that an oilfield worker found the rod of...

A Republican Senate candidate from Connecticut on Sunday declared her support for “America’s law” protecting equal marriage rights for LGBT people, even though no such federal law exists. “I absolutely support...

The discovery of a rare species of spider has stalled construction on a multi-million dollar highway project in San Antonio, Texas, NBC News reports. “It’s the first time we’ve seen it in 30 years,” said Molly Keck, an...

Chinese telecom giants Huawei and ZTE pose a security threat to the United States and should be barred from US contracts and acquisitions, a yearlong congressional investigation has concluded. A draft of a report by the House Intelligence...

At least seven people have died and 91 have fallen ill in the United States in a worsening meningitis outbreak tied to a contaminated drug, updated figures showed Sunday. Cases have been identified in nine states, with the hardest-hit being...

President Barack Obama’s campaign intensified attacks Sunday on Mitt Romney’s honesty as it tried to halt the Republican challenger’s momentum after a strong first debate performance. Romney’s people hit back, and did so...

Former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Sunday admitted that GOP hopeful Mitt Romney had “changed” positions during last week’s debate when he claimed that he had not proposed a $5 trillion tax cut. “I don’t...

Michael Krawitz, from Elliston, Virginia, suffered a car accident while serving in the US air force which left him permanently disabled and in chronic pain. Years later he received a prescription for medical marijuana while abroad, which, when...

Secular and science groups have urged the Ohio Supreme Court to rule against John Freshwater, an eighth-grade science teacher who was fired for teaching creationism instead of evolution in class. “Freshwater’s pedagogy serves no...

Obama senior campaign adviser Robert Gibbs says that GOP hopeful Mitt Romney’s debate performance was “theatrical” but only proved that the Republican nominee would take “the battle straight to Sesame Street and let Wall...

Although former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson is gaining in the polls and is expected to be on the ballot in all 50 states as third-party presidential candidate, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus insisted on Sunday that the...